Sunday, 27 February 2011

Rita Hayworth in Lady from Shanghai, 1947: screenshot from film trailer

We dwell in our plush gumstuck viewing thrones.Buck's still caught on that log when the house lights come Up. Shocked by the return of a real lifeWe were doing very well without, thank you,We recognize that image was a white lie,

With no more substance than a dream, No more lasting than the gift by which we breathe,No more lasting, that is, than itself.And as in waking from the dream too soonOne forgets its truths, we turn back into lumps,

Steve, there are a few abbreviated and/or muddied Frank trax available on Youtube (the one in which Nirvana drowns out his reading of "Lana Turner Is Collapsing" gets a lot of hits from the "awesome" crowd), but I fear I was unable to fill your specific request.

(Perhaps you know of secret sources for that?)

Walter, who would not be wowed to have a humble blog post on the movies endowed with the blessing of one of the historical geniuses of movie making.

(I have been greatly appreciating the fascinating education in the intricacies of sound design and editing to be found here.)

Well Ed, I was about to reveal the results of a bit of aim-to-please research into the bathetic depths of cultural trivia which revealed that Howard Hughes invented an underwire bra with straps to enhance Jane Russell's already considerable pectoral assets in the film The Outlaw (shot in 1941, but not in general release for five years after that, due to Hughes' struggles with the Production Code over "morally acceptable content").

Reportedly the thing was terribly uncomfortable, and Jane did not put up with it happily, nor for very long.